Basic Macors Stollen from TTH
But eddited down a bit. No actual Macroes removed just some of the text.
Displaying PC and mob names in macroes:
%td is for defensive target
%to is used to display your offensive target’s name.
There are two different types of assist keys you can make:
To assist the main tank in your group:
/assist “tank name”
OR
To assist your defensive target:
/assist %td
To anounce that your pulling a mob:
/g Incoming %to
NOTE: To make the target's name show up pink by using a fake item tag you would do this:
/g Incoming <item=00000::0,0,0,>%to</link>
Spells and Songs
The command for casting a spell / singing a song, or ability is:
/cast “spell name”
/playsong "song name"
You can create a new hotkey and type this in yourself, or you can right click on an existing spell and it will create a hotkey with a single line that casts the spell. To add an announcement to the hotkey, press enter to move to the next line in the hotkey, and then you can enter the channel and message.
WARNING: Sometimes this will mess up the spell/song. So best to open your book and put in a second song/spell and edit that.
For example, to announce to your group that you are mezing an add, your hotkey would look like this:
/cast “Bard Mez ability”
/g Mezzing %to for 18 seconds.
There are some instances when you may want to cancel the spell you’re casting and cast another spell instead. While you can bind a key to cancel spells/songs/abilities (default is backspace), you can also cancel whatever you are casting in a hotkey using the following command:
/cancelability
For example, to make a hotkey that stops whatever you are casting, counterspells your target, and announces it to your group you could do this:
/cancelability
/cast “Nullifying Field”
/g Counterspelling %to
Items with right-click effects can be used in hotkeys with this command:
/itemuse "item name"
You can cast a spell/song and use a item at the same time right now.
You can make a hotkey that targets the nearest corpse and loots everything on it.
/targetnearestcorpse
/loot
/lootall
Note however that there is some server delay between the /loot command and when the loot window actually opens. Because of this, it is usually necessary to press this key twice: once to open the corpse and once to loot what's on it.
Hotkeys for Changing Equipment and Forms
You can create hotkeys that can equip multiple items at once.
This is mostly useful for weapons, since you can change those during combat.
Here is one example of swapping weapons to a one hander and a shield:
/wear "Dusty Longsword" primaryhand
/wear "Dusty Shield" secondaryhand
You can use the wear command in conjunction with form changing command to both change your combat form and equip a difference set of weapons.
/combatformset "Offensive"
/wear "Dusty Longsword" primaryhand
/wear "Dusty Shortsword" secondaryhand
For bards you can have one hotkeys for each song that plays the song, changes forms, and changes your equipment. For example, if you wanted to play the song "Regen" which has song components that can be enhanced by a stringed instrument, you could make a hotkey that plays the song, changes to an instrument, and puts you in a defensive form, since you won't be attacking.
/playsong "Selos"
/wear "Drum" secondaryhand
/combatformset "Water Dance"
Rao says:
As a bard I use these alot. Playing a song and equiping the enstrument.
I have one for attacking, running, and regening. Why attacking? To give a burst of DPS to Main Tank before going into battle. And I will sit back and use songs instead of meleeing in a very hight DPS group. My damage dosn't even come close when theres 3 or 4 high dps classes. In a casting group of course im in there swinging.
I use some emotes as well for some of them. like my run song
/playsong "Selos"
/wear "Drum" secondaryhand
/combatformset "Water Dance"
/Emote pulls out his drum.
Somtimes you can get battle spam tho. Like when trying to chain mez three adds on a bad pull. So I usually have two Mez macros up. On with a group warning and one with out so that I'm not adding to the Battle spam.
Rao